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The Life Of q Marine.

When they are in the navy yard this
is the order Of life for the gallant soldier
tars: They are called from their rosy
slumber by the shrill notes of the fife
and the rat-tat of the drum at the
hour of six, after which the roll call is
held and the men are detailed off to
"police duty" as it is called, which
means "chores," such as cleaning the
rooms, sweeping them, fixing the walks
and the like. This is for only a quarter
of an hour. The men then get ready
for breakfast, which is served at half
past seven. At half past eight the roll
is again called and the men show up
under arms, in belt and musket. At
q quarter to nine they mount guard.
Usually about thirty-fve or fortya day
are detailed for this duty. There are
three relief-guards. The first goes on
at nine and is relieved at eleven, which
second guard is relieved at one, and the
first returns again ut three, and so on
during the day. When they are off
they can sit and smoke or sleep in the
guard house. At half past ten drill
takes place and lasts one hour. On
Saturdays and Sundays there is no drill,
but every other day of the week it is .
regular duty. At one, dinner. At half
past one the roll call again-the Glib
erty" call-as all the blue-shirted boys
can get off till the following morning at
half-past seven except those on guard
duty or who are punished for some Of
tense by O weeks, fortnight's or month 8
removal for the outing privilege. If
they come back little the worse tor
wear and carrying too heavy topsail
they are run into the guard house till
they recover. If they come back late,
punishment is given according to the
character OF the belated and the reason
for his tardiness.
The marine enlists for five years and
then may re-enlist for the same term and
keep this up as long as he is able to
work and wishes to be marine. This
is the monthly tariff of wages for five
different enlistments: Sergeant major,
S52, S27, 1928, $29, $50; quarter-master
sergeant, the same; drum major, 1922,
S26, S27, S2S, 500; first sergeant, the
same; sergcan, t $17, $21, $22, 1928, $24;
corporal, SIS, $40, 800, $21, $22; drum
mers and fifers get the same as the priv
ates-viz., $13, $17, $ls, $1s, $2O.-Neu
York Herald.
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Origin Of Ugly Fashions.

The most frequent cause of the inven-
ton of ugly and insanitary costumes has
been the attempts made to conceal
blemishes or deformities existing in per-
sons of exalted rank, and the new fash
ions have spread because they were at
once initiated BY courtiers who thus
tacitly fattered the original wearers of
them. 1t was to hide the short stature
of Louis XIV. that high heels and tower
ing pcrruques were introduced. The
Virgin Queen patronized immense rulfs
because her neck was not handsome.
Short hair became fashionable in France
when an accident to the Kings head
during SNOWFALL fight nccessitated the
removal of his flowing locks. Full-bot-
toned wigs were invented by French
barber named Duvillier to conceal the
fact that one shoulder of the dauphin was
higher than the other. Charles VII. OF
France wore long coats to hide his i'll.
made legs. Henry Plantagenct, Duke OF
Aniou, had his shoes made with long
points to screen from observation an ex-
crcscence on one foot. British Medical
Journal.
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natural process may be hastened by oc-
casionally turning the cider out Of one
barrel into another, exposing it more
fully to the air, also by the addition Of
a gallon Of strong vinegar or a little
mother to each barrel. Sometimes trick
ling it down through beech chips or
shavings is practised for more rapid
making, but people who have large
orchards and make large quantities
never resort to any of the questionable
methods sometimes used by manufac-
turers for making what they call cider
vinegar quickly, but are content to wait
on the natural process and find their
compensation in the higher value placed
on their products by their customers.--
New York World.
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A NObleman's Peculiar Clothes.

"There is story told of an English
lord who was visiting in Germany du-
ring the Emigration, said DR.. Ham
mond to New York Journal reporter
"Many French noblemen were present,
and one, the Marquis H'Ebaire, wore
sucha peculiar waistcoat and breeches
tGa$f Che Englishman was singularly at
tefsa,tttsd by it. He communicated his
Easssts6sity to the Due de Bellecourt, and
1.-THE latter with smile said:
~" "sPermit me to present you to the
Marquis. I have no doubt he will tell
you all about his notable vest and
breeches.'
"sAh, you have remarked my clothes,
said The Marquis, with dignity. do
not wonder. No man has ever worn the
like. I see your eye is fastened on this
red spot over the waistcoat pocket. l
will tell you how it came and what this
waistcoat is. Be seated.
"'One day as I was riding through the
woods I came across the body OF
young man hanging to the branch OF q
tree. l reined in and examined it. l
found it to be my brother Hector! On
it was card saying: "This is the body
of Hector Anatole Marie Louis B.
Ebaire, q colonel and an aristocrat,
shot by me, Citizen Paul Dubois, cap.
tain in the Republican forces" I cut
my brother down, strung his body across
my horse and escaped with him. l
buried his remains in the family vault
at night and had his skin made into a
waistcoat. Hero is where the bullet
passed into his heart. We were to-
gether in Life. You see we are not sep
arated in death.
"'Then the object of my life became
to find Captain Paul Dubois
"'But,' said the Englishman, inter
rupting the Marquis, and with his eyes
fixed on the breeches, the breeches,
Marquis2 You have not told me OF
them
"sAhl the breeches, replied the Mar
quis, casting his eye downward: The
breeches. They are the skin Of Captain
Paul Dubois I" sg
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The Language of Gloves.

The language of gloves is species OF
telegraphy largely resorted to by young
lovers in France. A young lady says
eyes" by dropping her right glove into
her left hand; mo" by rolling the two
gloves together. She conveys the in.
vitation: "Follow me into the garden"
by the pantomime OF brushing an
imaginary speck of dust off her left arm
with one or both gloves. The manrnvre
of drawing one hand over them as if to
smooth the leather means: Il love you
still the same" Should she desire TO
know if her feelings are reciprocated, she
will partially remove the left glove. "i'e
circumspcct" is expressed by turning the tn
ends of the glove of either hand de-
licately around the fingers. Lastly, If the
lady has anything to complain OF in her
lovers conduct, she expresses her dis
satisfaction by placing heT . gloves W. III IN s the
form of cross on the table or on her
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A RedOubtable Female Warrior.

People in Constantinople are inter
ested in the presence among them OF
Kara Fatma, the redoubtable female
warrior of Kurdistan, who has come on
brief visit to the Turkish capital. Her
deeds of daring date back to the begin
ming of the Crimean war, when she led
large body of Turkish volunteers, who
fought with singular daring for Turkey.
The Ottoman Government remembers
her services and requites them with a
monthly pension of 5000 piastres--a sum
that in her own frugal home allows her
to live with ease. She is tall, thin, with
brown, hawk-ike face; her cheeks are
the color of parchment, and scanned with
scars. Wearing the national dress OF
the sterner sex she looks like man OF
forty, not like woman who will never
again see seventy-fve. Slung across
her shoulders, in Cossack fashion, is
her long sabre, with its jeweled hilt;
decorations shine and sparkle on her
breast, while the stripes across her
sleeves show her to be captain in the
Ottoman army. Watching the interest
ing figure pass along the streets of Stam-
bul, one is reminded of an episode in
the campaign of General Lespinasse, in
the Dobrudja some little time before the
allied armies landed in the Crimea.
While smoking and chatting one day
in his tent with several of his brother
officers, the General heard at distance
strange music, o medley of drums and
clarinets, tom-toms and piercing human
cries. Whence came this weird min
strelsy9 All the men in camp turned
out to listen to it and discern its orr
gin, when from over the hills they saw
band of some 300 horsemen approach
ing them at full gallop. At their head
rode brown-faced woman, with flash
ing eyes and lissome limbs, the very pic
ture of an Amazon. Vaulting from her
saddle, she gravely saluted General Les
pinasse, and through an interpreter told
him that she had come to fight the Rus
SLAMS, both she md her brave Kurds
being completely at his service. That
night her men were quartered IN camp
with the French troops; but they were
ill-pleased to be so billeted. They want
ed their independence, and not even
their mistress and leader should barter
it away for them. By daybreak they
were in their saddles, riding off across
the hills to meet the dawn, to the sound
of that weird, strident music, which had
proclaimed their approach.-PaA Mall
Gazette,
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How to Make Cider Vinegar.

Vinegar can easily be made from many
different substances, but in country
abounding in apples there is no excuse
for making it for domestic use from any
thing but the best. Pure cider vinegar
is easily though not rapidly made by the
natural process, and when thus made is
healthful and free from all the objections
attached to the manufactured article,
and never disappoints the houskeeper
by degenerating to insipidity or eating
up her pickles by extreme acidity. When
made in large quantities from the Or
chard the making begins as soon as
enough apples have fallen to furnish a
supply. these are ground in the cider
mill. as for cider, and may be pressed at
once, but a better way is to keep the
pomace in large vats or casks until it has
become quite sour, when the cider is
pressed out and again put into vats or
casks to remain until we'll settled, when
the clear liquor is draMn off into barrels
not quite full. These barrels ought to
be kept in the sun covered with boards
for protection to the barrels until cold
weather sets in, when the barrels are re-
moved to the vinegar-house, which
should lave q stove to keep it warm in
the winter AMI hasten the process.
The barrels ought to be iron-hooped
and well painted, Us it is desirable,
though not indispensable, to expose
them to the sun in the warm autumn
days, and for large operators vinegar
house that can be warmed artiticially is
desirable. Many, however, keep their
sour cider in cellars or barns until
spring, when it is again exposed to the
sun and circulation of air, for cellar
is not good place for making vinegar:
The bungholes should be kept covered
with pieces of mosquito net or other
material that will keep out the flies.
The bungs must not be put in except
temporarily for at least year, and
where the barrels are in position that
does not require frequent moving it IS
better to keep the bungs open for
much longer time, as the vinegar will
continue to grow strong if exposed to
the air until two or three years old.
The loss by evaporation and leakage
isfrom one-folrth to third OF the whole
quantity, but as a compensation pure
cider vinegar two and three years old
will bear an addition of rain water,
sometimes equal to the loss and still be
strong enough to meet all requirements
Indeed. the dilution with water is gen.
er..lly necessary to some degree, as in
many cases the old vinegar is too acid to
be agreeable, and the cider in the first
stage of making is often slow in turning
to the acid state on account of an excess
of saccharine matter, which is corrected
by proper addition of soft water The
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Winter Care Of Cows.

The arrangement OF the barn and
yard should be such as to reduce the
labor as much as possible. Excessive
warmth is not conducive to robustness,
health or profit. II mans house is
kept closed up and heated with stoves
to temperature of eighty degrees, and
his food and drink are all taken hot
with view to preventing the effects OF
the cold and to insure more comfort,
the dwellers in that house will become
sick or diseased; the impure air will
poison the blood; the warmth will relax
the skin, dry it and open the pores, and
the slightest draft will cause a fit Of
shivering and induce dangerous colds.
1t is in precisely such houses that sore
throat, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and
othes diseases are so frequent, while in
the house where the windows are thrown
open to the breezes, and the cold, brisk,
pure air is welcomed, and exercise and
health give warmth, fed by the abund-
ant oxygen of the fresh air coursing
through the blood, there are health and
vigor and comfort. It is the same in
the dairy. Pleuro- pneumonia invades
those herds which are kept in close,
warm, unwholesome stables, and the
dreaded tuberculosis finds there its
prey; while from the wide airy stable,
well ventilated and filled with pure cold
air, the we'll fed COWS will emerge to
frolic in the snow, and enjoy themselves
in the bright sunshine and the crisp
air, when the thermometer marks down
nearly to zero. Except in stormy wealth
er, the COWS should spend at least three
or four hours every day in the yard,
picking some rough feed and getting
water and exercise. Agrieul-
turist.
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ing copper tanks. Some Of the retorta
used for this purpose are of sufficient
size to receive at once half ton of fresh
flowers and the requisite water for thei,
distillation. When scents are to be pro-
duced, alcohol is used in the distilling
tank to receive the perfumes. By skilful
combinations of the perfumes Of differ.
ent flowers, sometimes with the addition
of chemicals, q large variety of scents,
such as "patchouli" and ''jockey club, "
are produced at the original laboratory.
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Too Much Smile.

The conversation had tn nod on a young
lady whose mouth, when she smiled,
seemed to stretch from car to ear.
"Yes, but she has such handsome
teeth"
True; but she will some day loss
her teeth, while her emile will remain. "
stldge. .a
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A War ReminiScence.

Confederate shinplasters got to be so
numerous and so varied in the last days
of the war that "good old rebel, yes he
wa<," paid for square meal in country
town with label taken from Worces-
stsrshira sauees sbottle,Aetsle (Ala) Reg
ister. - -. z. e. :.
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BALLAD OF THE COLORS.
A gentleman of courtly air,

A gentleman of courtly air,
OF old Virginia he;
A damsel from New Jersey State,
Of matchless beauty she;
They met as fierce antagonists
The reason why, they say.
Her eyes were of the Fedral blue,
And his, Confederate gray.
They entered on fierce campaign,
And when the fight began,
It seemed as though the strategy
Had no determinate plan.
Each watched the others movements wel
While standing there at bay
One struggling for the Federal blue,
One for Confederate gray.
We all looked on with anxious eyes
To see their forces move,
And none could tell which combatant
At least would victor prove.
They marched and countermarched wit
skill,
Avoiding well the fray;
Here, lines were seen Of Federal blue,
And there, Confederate grsy.
At last he moved his force In mass,
And sent her summons there
That she should straight carltulste
Uron conditions fair.
Gas you march forth tho flags may fly.
The drums and bugles play;
But yield those eyes Of Federal blue
TO the Confederate gray"
"You are the foe," she answer sent,
ITO maidens such as L;
I'll face you with dauntless heart,
And conquer you, or die.
A token of the sure result
The vaulted skies display;
For there above Is Federal blue
Below, Confederate gray.
Sharp-shooting on each flank began,
And mid maneuvres free
The rattle of the small-talk with
Big guns Of repartee,
Mixed with the deadly glance Of eyes
Amid the proud array,
There met in arms the Federal blue
And the Confederate gray.
Exhausted by the fight at length
They called truce to rest;
When 10! another force appeared
Upon mountains crest
And as it came the mountain down
Amid the trumpet's bray,
Uncertain stood the Federal blue
And the Confederate gray.
A corps of stout free lances these
Who poured upon the field,
Field Marshal >'Ipid In command,
Who swore the.7 both must yield;
That both should conquer; both divide
The honors of the day;
And proudly with the Federal blue
March the Confederate gray.
His troops were fresh. and theirs wert
worn;
What could they but agree
That both should be the conquerers,
And both should captives be-,
So they presented arms, because
Dan Cupid held the sway,
And Joined in peace tho Federal blue
With the Confederate gray.
Twelve years have fed. Ipassed to-day
The fort they built, and saw
A sight to strike bachelor
With spirit-thrilling awe.
Deployed a corps Of infantry,
But less for drill than play;
And some had eyes of Federal blue,
And some Confederate gray.
FAos Dunn English, in Harper's Bazaar.
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The pen is mightier than the sword
and the bue pencil, as every newspaper
writ I krows, can knock the conceit out
of the emigiitlest pen.-:>omer. ILL., Journal.
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Worry. Not Work. Kills.

'The great man, " says Emerson, els he
who in the midst Of the crowd keeps with
perfect sweetness the serenity Of solitude. y
'How many Of the troubles of life, " asks
Sir John Lubbock, "are insignificant in
themselves and easily avoidabe?" 1t is
not so much in most cases, great sorrows,
diseases or death, but rather the little
daily dyings which cloud over the sun
shine Of life We most OF us give ourselves
an immense amount OF trouble, incumber
ourselves, as it were, on the journey OF
life with n dead weight of unnecessary
baggage. In that most delightful fairy
tale, "Alice in Wonderland, " the White
knight is described as having provided
himself on starting for journey with a
variety Of odds and ends, including a
mousetrGp, in case he was troubled 10y
mice at night, and beehive in case he
came across a swarm Of bees.-Home
Journal.
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emperor AKpar.s nonpon BOOK.

OF all the Mogul emperors Akbar was
10y far the ablest and greatest, but Shah
Jehan was the most magnificent Tho
Emperor Akbar succeeded 10 tho throne
when he was but IA years of age, with
only the Punjab under his rule. He had
the wisdom 70 show no distinction between
his Mohammedan and Hindoo subjects, and
made every effort 10 mold them into com
mon nationality. Born on Indian soil, he
made every effort TO give the country
Of his birth what she has never had, q
nationality. He even went SO far as only
TO marry into the families OF the royal
Hindoos. His military success was re-
markable, and at his death almost all
Of India was firmly secured to his empire
He loved and favored his friends, but had
no use for those who proved themselves
his enemies. His double sided box Of
bonbons is "a matter Of history. No one
dared 10 refuse the great emperor when he
was offered bonbon from this well
known box, although none could tell
whether it was an evidence of favor or of
displeasure until after it had been eaten.
a bonbon from one side of the box meant
favors of no mean kind, while one from
the other side meant sudden drowsiness
soon resulting in the sleep of death. 1t
has been said that he came TO his own
death by accidentally eating bonbon
from the wrong side Of his boX.-India
Cor. Baltimore sun.
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a Journalists Nervousness.

1t Is a question upon which artists dis
agree, this question Of nervousness
Great actors have told me they are al
ways nervous for several minutes after
their parts begin on the stage, and paint
ers say the same. They finish picture
and tremble for its reception. Pro
fossional men are nervous. Doctors have
told Inc they go to n case in awful mental
terror. Lawyers suffer during criminal
trials. Ministers endure agonies in the
pulpit until they ore fairly launched in Il
discourse, as DO other orators, and Of
writers, novclsts and poets it is pro-
verbal that they arc depressed and
wretchcd as the ink dries ON their paper
Journalists are equally so, | find. For
myself ! frankly admit that | put my
manuscript in its envelope with not alone
trembling fingers, but with a faintncss at
heart and a voiceless petition that the
good fates presiding over the quill and
paper may speed the white missive on its
way, and that some little thought or word
Of mine may find Judgment in even one
responsive heart. Then | rush out and
about, bestirriug myself in other voca-
tiOns TO shake OF my misgivings. So /
say, happy the man or woman who is in
sensible 10 these tortures Of "stagc
fright" on whatever stage in life,
dramatic or otherwise, they play their
earnest parts.-London Cor Detroit Free
Drpcg
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Wonderful CureS,

w ID Hoyt & Co., Wholesale and Re
all Druggists of Rome Ga, say: We
have been selling DR.. Kings New Dis
c0yery, Electric Bittcrs and Bucklen'
Arnica Sa We for two years. Have never
handled remedies that sell as well. or give
such universal satisfaction, There have
been some wonderful cnres effected by
these medicines in tins city. Several cases
of pronounced Consumption have been
entirely cured by use Of few bottles OF
DR.. Kings New Discovery taken in con.
nection with Electric Bitte7s. We
guarantee them always Sold by T. 5
Webb.
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NEWPAPER LAW.

l.-Subscribers who do not give express no.
ticc 10 the contrary, are considered wishing 10
continue their subscription.
Elf subscribers order the diScOntinuance
OF their periodicals, the publishers may con-
tnue TO send them until "all arrearages are
paid
ais subscribers neglect or REFUSE To take
their periodicals from the Office To which they
are directed, they are held responsible until
they have settled their bills and ordered them
discontinued.
Amy person who receives newspaper
from the post Office. whether he has ordered IL
or not, is held 10y the Postal Law to be IA sub
scriber,
5.-If subscribers pay in advance they must
give notice To the publisher at the end of their
time If they do not wish To continue taking II,
otherwise the publisher Is authorized TO send il
on and the subscriber will be held responsible
until an express notice with payment of all
arrears are sent to the publisher.
6.-lt is Il State Prison Oifensc u take pa
per from the office, and then return il the pub
Usher rcsused.-U. ). Session Laws for news
papers.
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Christcndom's peculiar Property.

deaths heads, graves, knells, blacks
and tombs' are the peculiar property OF
Christendom, being almost unknown 10
pagan antiquity. The elder Dsraeli, in
mentioning the fact that the skeleton, as
a symbol of death, is an invention Of the
middle ages, says: ''The ancient artists
so rarely attempted TO personify Death
that we have not discovered n single re
voting imagc Of this nature in all the
works of antiquity" This being so, the
conception ~ death as an awful spccter,
and the wearing Of gloomy black as n com
pulsory tribute to his grimness, can hardly
be regarded as n mark Of our superiority
over our pagan predecessors. The Forum.